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Adobe Photoshop

PS CS6 on Precise

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CS6 released on Mar 21 2012.

Application Details:

Version: CS6 (13.0)
License: Retail
URL: http://www.adobe.com/products/...
Votes: 21
Latest Rating: Silver
Latest Wine Version Tested: 2.19

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Test Results

Selected Test Results

What works

Most things seem to work out well, not a single problem occurred to me.

What does not

Workarounds

What was not tested

  • This was not a comprehensive test.

Hardware tested

Graphics:

  • GPU: Intel
  • Driver: open source

Additional Comments

  • If you have problems with the dark screen in the Liquify function, disable "Use Graphics Processor" in "Edit> Preferences> Performance". But this can be something from your graphics card.
  • The 64 bit installer does not start, it needs to use 32 bits, so during installation you have to install the 32 bit as well.
  • After installing Wine, I executed the command on the terminal to start the Wine settings (NOTE: I did not have to use "WINEARCH".

           $winecfg

  • I installed the necessary libraries with winetricks in the terminal:

       $ winetricks adobeair atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2008 vcrun2010 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb corefonts


You need to allocate at least 512 MB of Video Memory to Wine via the command: "winetricks videomemorysize=512". Otherwise, editing large files and layers will crash Wine.

selected in Test Results table below
Operating systemTest dateWine versionInstalls?Runs?Used
Workaround?		RatingSubmitter
CurrentFedora 26 x86_64Nov 18 20172.19Yes Yes NoSilverWilliam Canin 
ShowUbuntu 17.10 "Artful" amd64 (+variants like Kubuntu)Nov 02 20172.18Yes Yes NoBronzeAndrew 
ShowFedora 25 x86_64Feb 05 20172.0Yes Yes GoldDemi Barbanousse 
ShowArch Linux x86_64Oct 30 20161.9.22Yes Yes Goldan anonymous user 
ShowUbuntu 16.04 "Xenial" amd64 (+ variants like Kubuntu)Oct 17 20161.9.20Yes Yes Goldan anonymous user 

Known Bugs

Bug # Description Status Resolution Other apps affected
30239 Multiple Adobe CS6 trial installers fail to initialize, reporting 'Exception caught while getting payloads data combined. Error #1090' NEW View
33610 Photoshop CS6 rendering one frame behind with NVIDIA UNCONFIRMED View
35041 Multiple apps and games crash with heap corruption or live-lock in libX11 (EA Origin, Garmin Express Fit, SMPlayer, LotRO launcher, Kindle for PC, Conan Exiles)('taskset -c 0 wine ./foo.exe' is a workaround) NEW View
35805 "Open file..." box doesn't display image preview in Photoshop CS6 UNCONFIRMED View
37928 Photoshop CS6: Mini-bridge panel does not show directory entries in alphabetical order UNCONFIRMED View
37929 Photoshop CS6: save for web dialog ( and others ) blur when tooltips are expected to appear UNCONFIRMED View
38105 Missing min/max/expand buttons, app controls & moving ability of Photoshop CS6/CC main window when unmaximized UNCONFIRMED View
38512 winetricks fontsmooth-rgb partially smooth fonts in Photoshop CS6 UNCONFIRMED View
39087 Photoshop CS6 won't save on a gvfs mounted share UNCONFIRMED View
39476 Photoshop CS6: dragging a layer does not make it transparent UNCONFIRMED View

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Comments

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Open Source Graphics vs Blobs
by Electric Prism on Sunday June 5th 2016, 22:48
It seems like it runs better on Intel Open Graphics Driver whereas it runs worse on nVidia blob even though it's just integrated HD Skylake Graphics vs a GTX 970.

I'm beginning to wonder if it works better on AMDGPU, Intel Open Graphics and other Open Drivers.
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RE: Open Source Graphics vs Blobs
by Robert Munteanu on Monday June 6th 2016, 4:30
What differences due you see between the two video cards?
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RE: Open Source Graphics vs Blobs
by Electric Prism on Monday June 6th 2016, 5:06
Intel freezes up less and can run 1gb files. The guides still dont show right after placing. This weird yellow tooltip also stays stuck on the screen still and sometimes file operations like save freeze when doing 1gb files @ 4k resolution.

Nvidia just struggles and locks up more on Arch wine staging using the blob. I never expected usability and stability to improve but it has on open Intel drivers.
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RE: Open Source Graphics vs Blobs
by Robert Munteanu on Thursday June 9th 2016, 3:05
OK, thanks for the info.

Also, you mentioned that the 'guides are weird'. If there isn't a bug filed for that it might be worth to add it.
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PS CS6 on Wine 1.8
by Richard Baláž on Tuesday December 22nd 2015, 9:26
So,
I had problems with installation since it always failed. I was experiencing similar problems after installation.

This winetricks line helped to install & to launch:
$ winetricks -q atmlib gdiplus msxml3 msxml6 vcrun2005 vcrun2005sp1 vcrun2008 ie6 fontsmooth-rgb gecko

After that I was able to launch successfully only 32-bit version.
PS works quite good, but drawing tools are still not working properly. And that's sad. Also, after first start PS noticed me that something is wrong with graphics acceleration (I have Intel HD 4400). But other things seems to be working and it is stable.

Richard.
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photoshop cs6
by Glenn Van Acker on Friday September 25th 2015, 11:42
3D support does seem to work if you enable opengl in winecfg
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Brush DOTS workaround
by Max S. on Tuesday February 10th 2015, 20:26
Currently running Photoshop CS6 under Wine 1.7.34 on Mint.
I too have experienced issues where some tools will not properly draw when holding the mouse down. Sometimes I can draw squiggles, sometimes it's just a dot.

Thankfully I found a workaround to this issue in tool options.
Simply turn off 'Spacing' for each drawing tool (Brush, Eraser, Pencil, etc). After that, dots should be no more.

This solution may work on older Photoshops.
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RE: Brush DOTS workaround
by Erikas Rudinskas on Thursday December 24th 2015, 2:49
Please see: ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2210503

Quick fix for those dots & lines is to use older wine version, which is originally used in POL: 1.7.46-stagging
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